Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21)
The Law:
Committee(s) of Jurisdiction:
House Committee on Ways and Means
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- Customs revenue, collection districts, and ports of entry and delivery
- Reciprocal trade agreements
- Revenue measures generally
- Revenue measures relating to insular possessions
- Bonded debt of the United States, subject to the last sentence of clause 4(f)
- Deposit of public monies
- Transportation of dutiable goods
- Tax exempt foundations and charitable trusts
- National social security (except health care and facilities programs that are supported from general revenues as opposed to payroll deductions and except work incentive programs)
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House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- Coast Guard, including lifesaving service, lighthouses, lightships, ocean derelicts, and the Coast Guard Academy
- Federal management of emergencies and natural disasters
- Flood control and improvement of rivers and harbors
- Inland waterways
- Inspection of merchant marine vessels, lights and signals, lifesaving equipment, and fire protection on such vessels
- Navigation and laws relating thereto, including pilotage
- Registering and licensing of vessels and small boats
- Rules and international arrangements to prevent collisions at sea
- The Capitol Building and the Senate and House Office Buildings
- Construction or maintenance of roads and post roads (other than appropriations therefor)
- Construction or reconstruction, maintenance, and care of buildings and grounds of the Botanic Garden, the Library of Congress, and the Smithsonian Institution
- Merchant marine (except for national security aspects thereof)
- Purchase of sites and construction of post offices, customhouses, Federal courthouses, and Government buildings within the District of Columbia
- Oil and other pollution of navigable waters, including inland, coastal, and ocean waters
- Marine affairs, including coastal zone management, as they relate to oil and other pollution of navigable waters
- Public buildings and occupied or improved grounds of the United States generally
- Public works for the benefit of navigation, including bridges and dams (other than international bridges and dams)
- Related transportation regulatory agencies (except the Transportation Security Administration)
- Roads and the safety thereof
- Transportation, including civil aviation, railroads, water transportation, transportation safety (except automobile safety and transportation security functions of the Department of Homeland Security), transportation infrastructure, transportation labor, and railroad retirement and unemployment (except revenue measures related thereto)
- Water power
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House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- All energy research, development, and demonstration, and projects therefor, and all federally owned or operated nonmilitary energy laboratories
- Astronautical research and development, including resources, personnel, equipment, and facilities
- Civil aviation research and development
- Environmental research and development
- Marine research
- Commercial application of energy technology
- National Institute of Standards and Technology, standardization of weights and measures, and the metric system
- National Aeronautics and Space Administration
- National Space Council
- National Science Foundation
- National Weather Service
- Outer space, including exploration and control thereof
- Science scholarships
- Scientific research, development, and demonstration, and projects therefor
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House Committee on Natural Resources
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- Fisheries and wildlife, including research, restoration, refuges, and conservation
- Forest reserves and national parks created from the public domain
- Forfeiture of land grants and alien ownership, including alien ownership of mineral lands
- Geological Survey
- International fishing agreements
- Interstate compacts relating to apportionment of waters for irrigation purposes
- Irrigation and reclamation, including water supply for reclamation projects and easements of public lands for irrigation projects; and acquisition of private lands when necessary to complete irrigation projects
- Native Americans generally, including the care and allotment of Native American lands and general and special measures relating to claims that are paid out of Native American funds
- Insular areas of the United States generally (except those affecting the revenue and appropriations)
- Military parks and battlefields, national cemeteries administered by the Secretary of the Interior, parks within the District of Columbia, and the erection of monuments to the memory of individuals
- Mineral land laws and claims and entries thereunder
- Mineral resources of public lands
- Mining interests generally
- Mining schools and experimental stations
- Marine affairs, including coastal zone management (except for measures relating to oil and other pollution of navigable waters)
- Oceanography
- Petroleum conservation on public lands and conservation of the radium supply in the United States
- Preservation of prehistoric ruins and objects of interest on the public domain
- Public lands generally, including entry, easements, and grazing thereon
- Relations of the United States with Native Americans and Native American tribes
- Trans-Alaska Oil Pipeline (except ratemaking)
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House Committee on Homeland Security
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- Overall homeland security policy
- Organization, administration, and general management of the Department of Homeland Security
- Functions of the Department of Homeland Security relating to the following:
- Border and port security (except immigration policy and non-border enforcement)
- Customs (except customs revenue)
- Integration, analysis, and dissemination of homeland security information
- Domestic preparedness for and collective response to terrorism
- Research and development
- Transportation security
- Cybersecurity
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House Committee on Energy and Commerce
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- Biomedical research and development
- Consumer affairs and consumer protection
- Health and health facilities (except health care supported by payroll deductions)
- Interstate energy compacts. (5) Interstate and foreign commerce generally
- Exploration, production, storage, supply, marketing, pricing, and regulation of energy resources, including all fossil fuels, solar energy, and other unconventional or renewable energy resources
- Conservation of energy resources
- Energy information generally
- The generation and marketing of power (except by federally chartered or Federal regional power marketing authorities); reliability and interstate transmission of, and ratemaking for, all power; and siting of generation facilities (except the installation of interconnections between Government waterpower projects)
- General management of the Department of Energy and management and all functions of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
- National energy policy generally
- Public health and quarantine
- Regulation of the domestic nuclear energy industry, including regulation of research and development reactors and nuclear regulatory research
- Regulation of interstate and foreign communications
- Travel and tourism.
- The committee shall have the same jurisdiction with respect to regulation of nuclear facilities and of use of nuclear energy as it has with respect to regulation of nonnuclear facilities and of use of nonnuclear energy.
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House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform
Committee jurisdiction under House Rule X:
- Federal civil service, including intergovernmental personnel; and the status of officers and employees of the United States, including their compensation, classification, and retirement
- Municipal affairs of the District of Columbia in general (other than appropriations)
- Federal paperwork reduction
- Government management and accounting measures generally
- Holidays and celebrations
- Overall economy, efficiency, and management of government operations and activities, including Federal procurement
- National archives
- Population and demography generally, including the Census
- Postal service generally, including transportation of the mails
- Public information and records
- Relationship of the Federal Government to the States and municipalities generally
- Reorganizations in the executive branch of the Government
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